European Acoustic Heritage in construction, Exposition 21-31 january 2013, in Saint-Martin d’Hères (France)

Posted by: Nicolas Remy
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April 7, 2013 |
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One objective of the project was to meet a wider audience, make them discovering our sound heritage. The exhibition was hosted by the University Library and is installed in the entrance hall. The students were often in a hurry and sometimes curious! This exposition designed by the collective Escoitar, proposed different ways of approaching European Acoustic Heritage. Boxes were used as projection surface and iPads to disseminate images, videos and of course sounds.

All was not virtual! Visitors were invited to stick vignettes symbolizing different onomatopoeic sounds on a map of Grenoble … producing a tracking collective sound place in the city. This fun activity worked well even if he had to go through a “cardboard translation Spanish to French onomatopoeia!”

Two sound cards were presented: The general soundscapes map including “Cartophonies” and all sound maps from partners of this research project and the thematic map “sound of water in Galicia” designed by Escoitar: Acoustic Signals; Mechanical Sounds, Natural Sounds Social Sounds, sounds Submarine; Urban sounds.

The tv sound was really successful: from an ipad several interviews were projected onto boxes that served as screens. Over the last 2 years, duration of the European project, interviews with residents was collected. They talk about their personal experience of sound heritage. Videos taken in Grenoble evoke particularly the experience of users of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Grenoble.

23 and 24 January last, the duo of sorcerers l’Association Mille et Une Sciences Expérimentales has made its stand next to the exhibition. With their own tools: chopsticks sound, mp3, ladles, félétones, trompaillettes … and a theatrical exchange, they embark on large and small path of discovery of the phenomenon of sound. Through experiences that engage the body of participants, its abstract properties become tangible. For more information have a look on their lab that offers magic shows and stalls of scientific discoveries.